It happened, Ray Romano made up for ''Walcom to mooseport''.
Paddleton is this odd little comedy about a man with terminal cancer spending his remaining days with a friend who accompanies him on a road trip to acquire a specialized euthanasia medicine. Which is something I didn't even know existed.
And that's it. There really isn't anything else to the film.
It's just Ray Romano and Mark duplass's characters trying to comprehend and cope with a terminal illness and the inevitability of death.
Honestly it doesn't sound very funny but it's got that strange mundane awkward humor to it. I have no idea how one describes that kind of humor. It's just something you kind of have to experience.
I never really thought either of these actors had all that much range, but they do such a good job here. Maybe it's just ideal material for them or it's that weird mixture of depression comedy that can only be pulled off by comedians.
It could also be that I'm a bit of a sucker for movies about awkward people trying to cope with problems in their life. I mean these two guys are fundamentally the biggest losers you could find in a film.
Or at least that's the way they're described by Society.
I don't consider myself to be any different from them and be more than happy to live in either one of their Apartments they seem to have a pretty solid life in mind you. Sitting around playing a fairly entertaining adaptation of tennis and then spending the chunk of their day making their own pizzas and re-watching the same kung fu movie over and over again.
Overall it's a wonderful mix of awkward comedy and crushing misery it just makes for such an entertaining film.
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